Bottle-filling machine.



J. H. CHAMP.

BOTTLE FILLING MACHINE.

APPLIOATION FILED MAR. 14, 1910.

1,074,585. Patented Sept. 30, 1913.

TINITED STATEd PATENT, @FFTQE.

JOSEPH H. GHAMP, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, ASSIGNOIR, 'I( THE BISHOP & BABCOCK COMPANY, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

BOTTLE-FILLING MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent. fatentedsept. 30, 1913.

Original application filed October 4, 1904, Serial No. 227,152. Divided and this application filed March 14,

1910. Serial No. 549,144.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOSEPH H. CHAMP, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Cleveland, county of Cuyahoga, and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Bottle-Filling Machines, of Whichthe following is a specification, the principle of the invention being herein explained and the best mode in which I have contemplated applying that principle, so as to, distinguish it from other inventions.

The present invention, While relating as indicated to bottle filling machines, per tains more particularly to apparatus for receiving the filled bottles from such a machine, as for instance, from a machine of the type illustrated in my co-pending application, Serial No. 227,152, filed October 4,

19.04,'rou t of which the present application has been divided. This particular machine is characterized by having a rotatable carrier provided with a series of bottle-filling valves, or bottle filling mouth-pieces, and associated vertically reciprocable bottle lifts, whereby the bottles may be raised against such valves, filled, and then lowered again. Obviously it is in the last position, after, in other words, they havebeen filled, that the bottles require to be removed from the machine.

The object of the invention is the provision of means for thus removing and receiving the filled bottles that, in the event any bottle offers an abnormal resistance to removal from its rest or lift, will yield and allow such bottle to pass on to be later removed by the operator.

The invention also includes certain de sirable features of adjustability;.to accommodate the apparatus to different sizes of bottles.

To the accomplishment of these and related ends, said invention, then, consists of the means hereinafter fully described and particularly pointed out in the claims.

The annexed drawing and the following description setforth in detail certain mechanism embodying the invention, such disclosed means constituting, however, but one of various mechanical forms in which the principle of the invention may be used.

In said annexed drawing: Figure l is a side elevational view of my improved bottle receiving apparatus; Fig. 2 is a plan view of-the same; and Fig' 3 is a similar plan view but showing one of the partsin a different operative position.

Qnly so much of the machine is shown in said figures as is necessary to illustrate the relation thereto of the bottle receiving apparatus. The portion of the machine thus illustrated comprises, in other words, simply the bottle rests or lifts G, as they may be variously termed, depending upon the mode of operation of the machine, which serve to carry the bottles in the manner previously described from the operators station to the discharging station where'the receiving apparatus is located. The only portion of the rotary carrier that supports said rests appearing is the'series'of radial arms while none of the filling mechanism at all is shown.

The apparatus-for receiving the filled bottles from off the movable bottle rests G is formed with a horizontal plate R or support having thereon three bottle guides 7' 1' 7' Guides 1 and r are parallel with each other, and extend lengthwise of plate R; guide 1 being nearer to the operators station than is guide 9 Guide r has its one end hinged to the bottle receiving end of guide 7'; its

opposite and free end extends across the vertical line of the horizontal circular path of travel of the bottle rests, and hence across the path of travel of the bottles on such rests, to insure its positive engagement with each tilled bottle, on the latters appropriate rest. A spring 1- is connected to said guides 1" 7' and is of force so proportioned to the conditions of its desired work, that; it maintains said hinged guide 7 normally in line with said guide 1, but permits it under certain pressure to swing in the direction of travel of the bottle rests, toward the operator, as shown in Fig. 3. As each filledbottle, in turn, engages with said hinged guide 1 the latter, aided by vertical flange g at the rear edge of rest G, sweeps the bottle, under normal conditions, from off such rest, and on to plate R, between guides r and '2", in proper discharge movement from the machine. But, in the event any bottle ofi'ers such abnormal resistanceto removal from its rest as had better be spring-yielded to, than rigidly resisted, then, the hinged guide yields to the same. and swings toward the operator in the direction of travel of the ioo bottle rest, so as to permit passage of such bottle on its rest.

The guide 1' is formed with rigid arm 7, inclined to the line of such guide; such arm being longitudinally adjustable in a guide way 2- formed on said plate R and similarly inclined to the proper longitudinal position of said guide 1 on said plate. Such arm r is formed with a longitudinal slot 1", in which the stem of a thumb clamp device 1 fits, the lower end of such stem being screwthreaded in said plate. .Such clamp device is thus adapted to secure said arm in said guide way at any desired point of relative adjustment; so that itwill be seen that guide 7" maybe adjusted both longitudinally and laterally on said plate R, by longitudinal movement of its inclined arm, according to the different sizes of the bottles being filled. Each bottle rest, moreover, is adapted to have detachably fitted thereon, inside of flange g, a device g, which equips such rest to be used for a bottle of smaller diameter than is used when said device g is not employed.

Plate It, and with it the entire bottle-receiving apparatus just described, is secured in proper vertical adjustment on one of the uprights S of the outer and stationary frame work of the machine by a clamp device r It will be observed that said plate or support R which receives the bottles from successive bottle rests is so disposed that the side thereof toward which said rests approach makes an obtuse angle with respect to a tangent to the path of travel of said rests. (See Fig. 2.) It will further be observed that the fixed guide 1' is located'onthe other side of the plate, that is the side which makes an acute angle to such tangent, the guide on the obtuse angled side being the adjustable one, and the guide-way r along which said guide 9'. is adjustable lying substantially parallel with a tangent to the path of travel of the bottle 1'ests. It is in this way that the inner end of said guide 1" is caused to extend substantially up to such path of travel irrespective of the adjusted position of the guide.

Just as it is a matter of indifference in what manner the bottle lifts, as they have been termed, are given their translatory movement past the bottle receiving apparatus forming the subject matter of present interest, so it is a matter of indifference whether the receptacle being filled be a bottle in the particular sense of the term, or not; accordingly Wherever the term bottle appears in the foregoing description or the following claims, the same should be understood as including under the rule of equivalents, any suitable vessel as a known substitute for a bottle.

Other modes of applying the principle of my invention may be employed instead of the one explained, change being made as regards the mechanism herein disclosed, provided the means stated by any one of the following claims or the equivalent of such stated means be employed.

- I therefore particularly..point out and dis-.

receive a bottle from the latter, the side of said support toward which said rest approaches making anobtuse angle with respect to a tangent to such path of travel; a guide fixed to said support along the other side thereof and extending substantially up to such path of travel; and a second guide parallel with the first guide and adjustable in a direction transverse thereof but atlan angle such as to cause'said guide also to extend substantially up to such path of travel irrespective of its adjusted position.

2. In mechanism of the class described,-

the combination of bottle rests having a horizontal circular path of travel; a relatively stationary support adjacent to the path of travel of said rests and adapted to receive bottles therefrom, the side of saidsupport toward which said rests-approach making an obtuse angle wit-h respect to a tangent to such path of travel; a guide fixed to said support along the other side thereof and extending substantially up to such path of travel; and a second guide parallel with said first guide and adjustable in adirection transverse thereof but on a line substantially parallel to such tangent to the path of travel of said rest.

3. In mechanism of the class described, the combination of a bottle rest having a horizontal circular path of travel; a relatively stationary support adjacent to the path of travel of said rest and adapted to receive a bottle from the latter; a guide fixed on said support and extending substantially up to such path of travel; a second guide parallel with said first guide and adjustable in a direction transverse thereof but at an angle such as to cause said guide also to extend substantially up to such path of travel; another guide pivotally'attached to said first guide and adapted to project into such path of travel; and a spring normally maintaining said last named guide in such projecting position so as to sweep a bottle that offers less than a predetermined resistance from off said rest onto said support, a bottle that offers more than such predetermined resistance serving to move said guide out of such path.

4:. In mechanism of the class described, the combination of bottle rests having a horizontal circular path oftravel; a relatively stationary support adjacent to the path of travel of said rests and adapted to receive bottles therefrom, the side of said support toward which said rests approach making an obtuse angle with respect to a tangent to such path of travel; a guide fixed to said support along the other side thereof and extending substantially up to such path of travel; a second guide parallel with said first guide and adjustable in a direction transverse thereof but on a line substantially parallel to such tangent to the path of travel of said rest; another guide pivotally attached to said first guide and adapted to project into such path of travel, and a spring normally maintaining said last-named guide in such projecting position so as to sweepa bottle that offers less than a predetermined resistance from off said rest onto said support, 'a bottle that offers more than such predetermined resistance serving to move said guide out of such path.

Signed by me this 11th day of March,

J QSEPH H. CHAMP. Attested by- FRANK L. HINDS, E. H. VOGELPOHL. 

